the guy is whacked out…
“A possible military operation by Turkey in the Afrin region of northern Syria will be conducted together with Syrian opposition groups, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Jan. 16.
“This fight is for them. We are helping our brothers there so that they can protect their own territories,” Erdoğan told reporters in parliament.

Posted by: james | Jan 16 2018 19:54 utc | 3

@ Ian who wrote: ” Hmmm…maybe China will roll out that oil future contract on Thursday.”
I read somewhere that the rollout has been pushed back to March
China rating agency had downgraded US debt from some A rating to some B rating and ZH is reporting it but not Reuters.
And this is what we see on the surface. Wonder what is happening behind the scenes?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 16 2018 20:37 utc | 5

Worth keeping an eye on these two developments. Taken together it could mean that any excessive reaction by the US or NATO to Turkish efforts to take Afrin – can be rapidly reacted to.
1/ Turkish
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-16/turkey-notifies-nato-imminent-massive-invasion-syria-fight-kurds
2/ Russian
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-16/russia-begins-massive-icbm-launch-drills
(Note that some people have been expecting another “false-flag”, but involving real missiles, at the end of the week – just to make things complicated)

Posted by: stonebird | Jan 16 2018 21:36 utc | 7

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42711985
Trying to provoke a bigger explosion to hide their traces in Syria?

Posted by: Mina | Jan 16 2018 22:00 utc | 9

The BBC continues to assert, seems like daily, that Bashar al-Assad is guilty of the massacring his own people (& dropping barrel bombs). From what I have discovered it seems that the Syrian people absolutely adore him & his approval rate is well above 70% (100% for women).
Is there truth behind the BBC’s charge & if so what are the relevant incidents (when & where)? Please exclude the chemical/sarin episodes – he almost certainly is NOT guilty of masterminding these events.

Posted by: kweladave | Jan 16 2018 22:06 utc | 11

Hero 2
An not used to sheer rubbish on Moon of Alabama but those comments are !

Posted by: ashley albanese | Jan 16 2018 22:10 utc | 13

I normally would never suggest that people on one blog hop over to another (could cause “cross contamination”) but I trust the folks here, and do believe that all of what I wrote on the other blog (forum, actually) may be of serious interest to the people here. Plus, I am actually trying to start a movement. My (three) topics have “by blues” on the left side next to the empty “speech balloons”. One of the topics, about redistricting, involves a bit of second degree algebra, and another, about proportional representation, involves some very simple “tiling geometry”. The “topic” “Strategic Hedge Simple Score Is The Only Worthwhile Method” is likely to be the most relevant for people here. The forum in which my work appears is at:
http://electology.org/forums/theory

Posted by: blues | Jan 16 2018 22:46 utc | 15

@Debs 13
re: “an invasion force of Turks to occupy North Eastern Syria”
>Rojava was (is) a defacto Kurdish autonomous region, so it would be no big loss.
>Turkey acting like the US is big news — who do they think they are?
>Turkey occupying part of Syria and the US being evicted would be even bigger news.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 16 2018 23:28 utc | 17

Oscar perez was killed yesterday in Venezuela. He was the excop/ special forces who stole a helicopter and bombed the interior ministry. He captured the last minutes of his life on facebook so it is there for everyone to see.

Posted by: Garrett | Jan 16 2018 23:37 utc | 19

The meeting in Vancouver regarding the nuclear situation in North Korea (DPRK) includes the UN command members involved in the ongoing war, since 1953 under an armistice agreement.

Agreement between the Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command, on the one hand, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army and the Commander of the Chinese People’s volunteers, on the other hand, concerning a military armistice in Korea. . .here.

The US has indicated that one principal purpose of the meeting is that it wants to start interdicting ships bound for DPRK including boarding, and wants to get its UN Command allies to agree and participate.
some considerations
>The US position is that DPRK is in violation of UN resolutions, for which it has been sanctioned. The resolutions from the UN affecting DPRK are (in other words) commands from the agency that the DPRK is at war with.
>DPRK says it needs a credible defense against US military pressures. The US has bases and troops in Korea and also commands the large South Korea (ROK) military, a unique relationship in the world. US bombers have recently been dropping bombs near DPRK’s border, to cause DPRK people to recall when cities in their country were completely leveled, dams were bombed, etc. with many civilian casualties (a war crime).
>The Armistice Agreement includes: “. . .with the objective of establishing an armistice which will insure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved” but the US insists upon continuing threatening acts of armed force. DPRK’s position that it is these wrongful acts which have required DPRK to have a nuclear deterrence.
>Many countries consider that a nuclear deterrence is essential for national security. The US is in this category and has three different delivery modes for strategic nuclear weapons.
wiki:
–NPT-designated nuclear weapon states (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States)
–Other states with nuclear weapons (India, North Korea, Pakistan)
–NATO member nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey)
>The US (and UN) is insisting that DPRK unconditionally get rid of its nuclear deterrence. The two parties are at war, and one party insists that the other party disarm. Can’t blame them for that!

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 17 2018 0:12 utc | 21

Things have been most unsatisfying for a while … you richly deserve at least a day off!

Posted by: Trisha Driscoll | Jan 17 2018 1:25 utc | 23

James…some British guy… ha ha, wrong). By some American guy, bno Bausman.
He caused (because of aggressive findraising) a ruckus of handwringing by the likes of saker (always on the edge of hysteria) and that excitable rt fella, the one with the daily chatshow, which, to cut a long story short, resulted in the founding of the pretty abysmal durex, er, duran. Durans was always ever intended as a half-hearted “spoiler” against bausman’s ri initiative. Duran may have imrpoved gradually over the past 2 yrs, but is still pretty paltry and pedestrian and looks like something designed by someone whose dayjob is interior des for grain silos. Actually, I don’t personally mind bausman’s site. It is at least pretty newsy, maintains a lot of tongue in cheek and provides a useful digest. And tbf, I never saw much difference between their slighly pushy fundraising and many other mendicant bloggers and digests. One has to be a bit sceptical of all of them. My own high-scepticism “hmmm” site is ttg (after saker), but they too are pretty useful for analyses and opinions from a particular provenance.

Posted by: Plod | Jan 17 2018 2:06 utc | 25

@plod… thanks..news article i read said the guy was from geenwich….. if you say he’s an american – okay.. it seems like a lot of outlets have an agenda.. just what it is at this point, i am not sure.. reminds me of radio free europe and shit like that.. pure propaganda stuff basically… for all i know, they all get their education at langley, or chatham house before setting up shop elsewhere..

Posted by: james | Jan 17 2018 2:45 utc | 27

@31 frances
Possible. I’m seeing it more as the Turks working with the Russians to try and clear out the Kurds and keeping them from hooking up with the US/Kurds in the northeast.

Posted by: financial matters | Jan 17 2018 3:15 utc | 29

@32 financial matters
Your suggestion is plausible, very plausible. Whatever you may think about the Kurdish Turkish problems it is a fact that Syria has previously functioned as a safe haven for Kurdish insurgents, and that Turkey no sees an option to be rid of them. I predict the Kurds will be removed from the whole Idlib province. That leaves the Turkish backed Al Qaeda to deal with, both the Russians and the Syrian government regards them as terrorists….. I wonder what dealings were made.

Posted by: Den Lille Abe | Jan 17 2018 8:42 utc | 31

Rabid warmonger Molly Mckew delivers more bs about Russia,
No, Molly, Russia doesn’t believe in ‘nuking their own people’
http://www.worldandwe.com/en/page/no_molly_russia_doesnt_believe_in_nuking_their_own_people.html

Posted by: Anon | Jan 17 2018 9:49 utc | 33

Heros 35
There are libraries on all this ‘Soviet’ stuff . The best U S analyses figures are , 850,ooo executed between 1921 and 1950 with a further 2 . 3 million gullaged for political reasons between that period .
Many in the prison system were released some died but were not executed as such .
Watching a lecture with Richard Pipes recently he charged that the N K V D executed 15 million political prisoners in the 1920’s / 1930’s .
How absurd ! Where would a beleaguered Soviet state have found the resources to be killing AND BURYING on such a scale ?
The view that the Soviet was some sort of Jewish cabal forced upon the Soviet peoples is equally absurd .
If there is a conspiracy involving the Jews it is more in the direction of Jewish groups being used by Anglo Imperial interests in their bid to control geo strategic resources and markets . That is clearly why Israel was allowed to be created by English / U S Capital in the first place . Puppet – then and now – not puppet master !

Posted by: ashley albanese | Jan 17 2018 11:14 utc | 35

I love the comments that “Speak in tongues”, they are usually the ones that spout the most incoherent nonsense often with a xenophobic overtone directed at some particular group of people. And then there are the ones with religious overtones, they are quite rambling too, more coherent, but completely rambling. But it does obscure all the ones with a interesting point of view. Sigh !

Posted by: Den Lille Abe | Jan 17 2018 11:35 utc | 37

Ian@25. Turkey does not have access to US nuclear weapons, never has had and never will have. All nuclear weapons in Turkey are under US control, including weapons codes.
The US say Turkey’s threatened invasion of Idlib has nothing to do with them. Whereas if Turkey actually did what it threatened to do and strangled the proposed US protected 30,000 strong force at birth along the Syrian/Turkish border [in alliance with Syria, Iraq, Hezbollah and Iran backed by Russia], I would have more respect for them . Nothing should be done by anyone of course until Kurdish and Arab factions represented in the SDF make their alliances known in the peace conference in Sochi at the end of the month.

Posted by: harrylaw | Jan 17 2018 12:08 utc | 39

@ Heros | Jan 17, 2018 7:21:30 AM | 43
Please do us a favour and keep this Jewish-nonsense material in your fridge. When I visit this site I have no appetite for alt+right nonsense, rather try to escape it.

Posted by: Hausmeister | Jan 17 2018 12:55 utc | 41

Heros
Your main argument is probably true – alot of the bolshevists in the revolution was jews BUT, how does jews in power equal a cabal though? Majority of western europe is led by white men, does that mean that there is a white-men cabal? Of course not.

Posted by: Anon | Jan 17 2018 13:57 utc | 43

“can only mean you believe that human behaviour is defined magically by blood even though there has never been any way of determining race by DNA analysis, blood analysis, brain dissection or whatever.”
Is that a joke? of course behaviour is defined by DNA and race is determined by DNA tests all the time.

Posted by: Smithy | Jan 17 2018 14:55 utc | 45

I have a theory of my own, which of course is not scientifically prove able, bur probably empirically: Too much religion corrodes your brain. Even reading about it, much worse writing about it can further the damaging process. The worst are those preaching or proselyting religion, even there also using just religious words will cause your brain to decay until finally you only able to babble incoherent.
I have seen such people, drooling, wild eyed, spittle flying from their mouths, yelling, almost chanting.
It is a sorry sight, I would wish for no one, believe me!

Posted by: Den Lille Abe | Jan 17 2018 15:21 utc | 47

news report – Reuters:
Rex Tillerson threatens a U.S. military response if North Korea refuses negotiations, Reuters reports from Vancouver where reps from more than 20 nations “agreed on Tuesday to consider tougher sanctions to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.”
‘Negotiations or else’ to the US means that DPRK must disarm or it will be attacked as a continuation of the UN war on North Korea, currently under a shaky armistice. That would be catastrophic. (see my 24 above)

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 17 2018 16:13 utc | 49

@51 The Vancouver conference loos a little inconclusive. Participants agreed to ‘consider’ new sanctions and prefer a diplomatic solution. Nothing new there.
The US as usual is talking tough. They probably want Kim to agree to talks so they can say he blinked.

Posted by: dh | Jan 17 2018 16:41 utc | 51

Further to the excellent points above re: DPRK, not sure if this has been said already, but Why on earth would ANY sane leader of any country eschew national self-reliance & put all their goods & services needs into the “free trade” basket – only to potentially face sanctions down the road by a capricious country like the US or collection of countries like EU/NATO/UN – it makes no sense, especially after seeing the well-worn sanction card being played repeatedly against Russia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, etc
If I were little Kim, I would pursue national resilience, and sod the West
To that end, I guess the nukes are helping in the resilience department…

Posted by: xLemming | Jan 17 2018 16:47 utc | 53

add to 57
North and South Korea sportspeople walking under one flag at the Olympic Games is highly symbolic. The GDR would never had done that not matter how good relations with the Federal Republic of Germany.

Posted by: somebody | Jan 17 2018 16:55 utc | 55

@50 xLemming
Since this is an open thread…you may be interested in the teachings of Buddhism. Buddhism at its surface level doesn’t deal with “God” – there is no deity, and I therefore don’t deem it a religion. Buddhism deals with the present moment, and the mind.
At a more doctrinal level, Buddhism does have a very specific take on “God”. Buddhist logic – which is truly magnificent to a reasoning mind – demonstrates that there can be no eternal, fixed deity. Belief in such a thing is termed “Eternalism”.
People who see that the religious conceptions of eternal gods are wrong, however then frequently have nowhere to turn except away from all conceptions of the holy. This is termed “Nihilism” by Buddhist teachings.
Both views are equal errors. Buddhism is thus known as “the Middle Way”, neither eternalist nor nihilist.
If you are a seeker of the truth, do yourself a great service and explore the teachings of the Buddha. I’m not qualified to suggest where you would start with this. I will say the Buddhist path itself is intended to be experienced, not dealt with in words, and the Buddha himself said that each person who followed his teachings was obligated to explore them for oneself. There is no “belief” within Buddhism, only one’s own experience of what is true or not.
Good fortune.

Posted by: Grieved | Jan 17 2018 17:10 utc | 57

@Grieved61
yes, I enjoyed this 3 volume set of audiotapes. It’s presented in a conversational manner rather than a lecture. As you mention he gets into the importance of experience as opposed to following doctrine.
Abiding in Mindfulness

Posted by: financial matters | Jan 17 2018 17:30 utc | 59

Some good news from Korea:

SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) — South and North Korea agreed Wednesday to field a joint women’s ice hockey team for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics and march together under a “unified Korea” flag at the opening ceremony.
The North will also send a 230-member cheering squad and a 30-member taekwondo demonstration team to the South, according to a joint statement issued after a working-level meeting at the border village of Panmunjom.
The North’s delegation will use a western land route, marking the opening of the cross-border road for the first time since February 2016, when a joint industrial complex in the North Korean border city of Kaesong was shut down.
The two sides also agreed to hold a joint cultural event at Mount Kumgang on the North Korean east coast before the opening of the Feb. 9-25 Olympics and to conduct joint training of skiers at Masikryong Ski Resort in the North.
As for the Paralympics scheduled for March 9-18, the North promised to send a 150-member delegation including athletes and cheerleaders. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 17 2018 17:58 utc | 61

Don Bacon @51:

Rex Tillerson threatens a U.S. military response if North Korea refuses negotiations…

It should be obvious to anyone by now that both North and South Korea are negotiating without (or with limited) US interference.   So, is Washington trying to take credit for something that they don’t deserve?   Are we going to see Washington on the podium claiming US diplomacy was the reason for both Koreas coming together?
The situation in the Korean peninsula looks promising!   North And South Korea Agree To Form Joint Team, Will March Together At Olympic Opening Ceremony.   Now, if only they could sign a peace treaty by year’s end and officially end the Korean war.

Posted by: Ian | Jan 17 2018 18:02 utc | 63

@ Ian | 67
US will try to spoil rapprochement of Koreas. The only way US agrees to diplomatic solution, if NK becomes puppet state along with SK, which isnt going to happen. Kim will rather wait till Outlaw empire collapses sooner or later.

Posted by: Harry | Jan 17 2018 18:09 utc | 65

from Jerusalem Post via southfront:

On January 17, the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) called on world powers to stop Turkey’s bombardment of Afrin city in the province of Aleppo in northern Syria. The PYD, that’s leading the political wing of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), also warned Turkey in the statement and stressed that “Afrin will not be alone “in case of a Turkish attack,” according to the Israeli Jerusalem Post newspaper.
Meanwhile, the Turkish Army deployed more armored units equipped with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to the border with Syria north of Afrin, according to Turkish sources. The Turkish Army even deployed I-Hawk medium-range surface-to-air missiles in the Kirikhan and Yayladagı provinces of Hatay in southern Turkey. . .here

“Called on world powers” = Washington, we have a problem, what are you going to do about it?

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 17 2018 18:21 utc | 67

Heros@60. Churchill was greatly distrusted by the British people who threw him out of office in 1945. His long career was punctuated by moments of almost sadistic policy decisions- using armed force to break up a miners strike at Tonypandy being but one of many. His responsibility in the creation of the famine in Bengal in WWII has been well documented-he was responsible for the deaths of millions there. His admiration for Mussolini and Hitler was so deep that he describes Hitler positively in a 1941 publication. They shared his love of the British Empire which they strove to emulate.
As to Solzhenitsyn, anyone who doesn’t understand that the libel, against Russia’s poor and particularly those in rural communities, who not only supported but anticipated and made the revolution, the laughable libel, concocted by proto Nazis and allies of the Entente banks, that the Revolution was carried out by Jews ‘who hated Russians’ is racist russophobic nonsense is a fool-however well he might write.
In 1917 the poor people of Russia gave the world a demonstration of how to put an end to the evils of class exploitation and imperialism. In doing so they incurred the implacable hatred of all the forces of evil on the planet-forces which eventually prevailed.
But not before setting an example that will surely be followed if our species is to live on.
Anti-semitism is one of the tactics exploiters use to defend their version of cannibalism by dividing the masses. We’ve known that for generations. It remains true: those who blame ‘the Jews’ for 1917 are not just ignorant but witting allies of the human race’s enemies.

Posted by: bevin | Jan 17 2018 18:27 utc | 69

38;Puppet master is the zionists.goddam.
The graun had a story about healthcare in US.The healthcare the makes you go in debt.
wapo?nyt?had a story about uk nat HC going broke.They had better collusion.
And their actor terrorist in Ven.hahahahahaha.The guy had it coming.

Posted by: dahoit | Jan 17 2018 18:31 utc | 71

As far as I know Denmark was invaded by German troops on the 9th of April 1940 at 0510.
An invasion is a war declaration as far as I know too. But that was maybe a lie, it was maybe also a lie I had a great grand father in Dachau and a great grand mother in Theriezenstadt. the germans did not like people that shot back. And that the Jews in Theriezenstadt knew where they were going. Great grannys made in the white busses, many did not. But that was maybe a lie.
The Jewish community in Denmark mostly made it to Sweden, but after the war, their German, Polish, Belgish, Dutch, French relatives and kin was gone. That was maybe also a lie.

Posted by: Den Lille Abe | Jan 17 2018 18:51 utc | 73

@Perimetr 80 (yr hyperlink doesn’t work)
CNN
The false alert came on the same day as the US and Canada planned to host talks in Vancouver over the crisis on the Korean Peninsula after a year of missile tests and threats from the North.//
No mention of military exercises, bomb dropping and threats from the US = fake news

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 17 2018 19:25 utc | 75

add to 83
This here, by the way, is Putin’s stance

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met with Russia Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and the President of Jewish Communities of Russia, to discuss joint efforts to combat anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism.
The meeting was also attended by rabbis from Israel, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and France. During the meeting, the parties discussed joint efforts to prevent the ‘rewriting of history’: the fight against neo-Nazism and neo-fascism, as well as xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
Putin assured the Jewish leaders that Russia will fight against any new manifestations of Nazism. “Of particular concern is the revival of Nazi ideas,” said Putin. “I want to thank the Jewish community, non-governmental organizations that are both active and courageous; we see it in today’s world – how a struggle is being uncompromisingly waged against all manifestations of the Nazi ideology and any attempts to revive it.”
“We consider you, in this regard, our closest allies and ask you to consider us and as such,” the Russian President added.

So this is quite likely a Western disinformation campaign to smear Russia with antisemitism.

Posted by: somebody | Jan 17 2018 19:38 utc | 77

@ somebody | Jan 17, 2018 11:55:07 AM | 58

North and South Korea sportspeople walking under one flag at the Olympic Games is highly symbolic. The GDR would never had done that not matter how good relations with the Federal Republic of Germany.

i know it sounds unlikely, but they did! ’56 till ’64
GDR didn’t do it out of love though, I think they were left no choice.
But your point being it’s a highly symbolic move – yeah, I couldn’t believe it at first. Some hope there, after all…

Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Jan 17 2018 19:43 utc | 79

@74 bevin.. thanks for stating all that…

Posted by: james | Jan 17 2018 20:44 utc | 81

@57/58 somebody.. yes – highly symbolic and fascinating to see at this moment… usa seems to need ongoing conflict to keep the military and financial industry going..

Posted by: james | Jan 17 2018 20:51 utc | 83

Of the strange things Heros has said in this comments forum, the oddest is @ 43 where in that comment s/he states that Joseph Stalin’s original surname Dzhugashvili means “son of a Jew”.
Dzhugashvili is a Georgian surname. According to some authorities, it’s a Georgification of an Ossetian surname which in a Russified form would be Dzugayev. Ossetians are the surviving members of those Indo-Iranian groups who once existed across Ukraine and southern Russia into central Asia and whose most prominent groups were the Scythians and Sarmatians, well-known to ancient Greeks, among others.
According to one source, Stalin’s father came from the Khevsureti highland region in Georgia and his mother was Ossetian.
https://www.counter-currents.com/2012/11/was-stalin-jewish-and-does-it-matter/
Despite what the heading of that link address might say, the actual article concludes that Stalin was not Jewish.
The one thing Heros has said which I would agree with is that Poland between the wars did aim to recreate its former territorial glory – without the cosmopolitan culture that was part of the former Poland-Lithuanian commonwealth – and did engage in forced polonisation of its minority groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonization

Posted by: Jen | Jan 17 2018 22:11 utc | 85

@93
I concur. What is so harmful in hearing out the other side? Read the article that Hero linked to; it is not some anti-Semitic hit piece, but, as it seems to me, brings out this ‘taboo’ topic in to the open for debate.
Since Hero brought up Alexander Solzhenitsyn, can someone let us know why ‘exactly’ his “200 Years Together” two-volume work written in his native Russian was never translated into English, but only German and French, yet, his Nobel Prize winning Gulag Archipelago was quickly translated into many languages?

was quickly translated into many languages and was published in the United States just a few months later.

What was in this book, by one of 20th century’s best historians, that earned its nickname as one of the most banned books in the world? Why is it such taboo to open discuss it?
This book has been partially translated into English thanks in large part to a network of dedicated underground samizdat anti-reprssionists

Posted by: JS | Jan 17 2018 22:27 utc | 87

@98
Who knows if RI is really a disinformation site…the same charge can apply equitably to the likes of CNN, WaPo, NYT, Breitbart, etc.
Read and make up your own mind…

Posted by: JS | Jan 17 2018 22:34 utc | 89

Strange… I wanted to look up some of Heros’charges, but I can’t find a timeline which shows the mobilisation dates of respective nations in the early stages of World War Two.
In this context, we can listen to Hitler himself explaining the start of the War and also the invasion of Russia on a Finnish taped recording between him and Mannerheim in 1942.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l85RvOvtMsw

Posted by: xaderp | Jan 17 2018 22:50 utc | 91

@101
I have judged for myself Russia Insider is pure disinformation.
It has nothing to do with Russia and more to do with Mr Bauman anti Semitic agenda

Posted by: James lake | Jan 17 2018 23:04 utc | 93

@Dr. Wellington Yueh | Jan 17, 2018 4:33:10 PM | 92
Agree, from my point of view this “Open Thread” has been hijacked by precisely that same “people” “somebody” is talking at @84 and @85, those we could call “The Solzhenitzers”, the same people who using multiple nicks are posting the same nonsense about Jews, the Bolshevik Revolution, Hillary Clinton and so on, at all the supposed “alt-media” Russia Insider, The Saker, The Duran, and so on….They try to equate what Solzhenitsyn( a nazi, and anti-communist agent who run to put himself at the service of the US, in the very Trotsky style ), and they themselves, thought, with what the majority of the Russians thought during all ages and even think today.
Total nonsense, when at least a half of the Russian population remains voting for the KPRF and even Mr. Putin have recognized recently that Communism in Russia acted the same way as a religion based on the very deep religious roots of the Russian soul. Thus, he himself recognize communism as something very Russian, indeed.
It´s only these supposed descendants of rancid aristocracy, supposedly despossesed by the Bolsheviks, who calim that the real desire of the Russian people is to return to a Csarist rule to be again ignorant serfs living in widespread misery. Since some amongst them have worked as “evangelists” of their own ideas, I would challenge any of them to return to Russia as soon as possible, since so “Putin praetorians”, and try to spread this nonsense there to test the results. I bet that they would be even beated by some proletarians there…which, takes the casuality, is what today they are the majority of the Russians.
Of course, they are not going anywhere out of the US, or puppet “five eyes”, lest they can find themselves out of the “safe heavens” of their “communities” and suffer any “emotional harm”….
These people have rotten every comment section at every of the supposed “alt-media” by trying to fight in mass any voice who could represent a different point of view from their well payed broadcasting goal, especially any communist voice, and this happened with the whole support and authorization of the supposed “owners” of those sites, who, obviating their own harsh “moderation policy” and even such religious background some show all time, allowed them spouting any kind of derogatory terms and tabernary language so as to provoke the target commenters into a fight or to discourage them definitely from posting at those sites.
This “estrategy” came into full steam around the US election.
These people are, for what I have been able to test, bona fide nazis, spouting the worst hatred speech against any people from other races, femminists, communists, well, almost everybody in the world except their “community of haters full time”, which would be punished by law in some European countries including mine, and I even bet in Russia as well.
They are responsible of the general belief on Mr. Putin and the current Russian administration being painted at the image of themselves, when they live mainly in the US and “five eyes” and have been always working against Russia and the Russian people, since what the Russian people voted when the USSR fell was for the continuation of the Soviet system, it was only through a coup d´etatperformed by the rancorous kulak Yeltsyn and other traitors that the “design” from the US came into power.
Then, those amongst them who claim to be Russian ( in the far distance afecting generations and generations )talk as if they were representing the Russian nation and government, which they are not, on the contrary, being most of them actually working for the US military and US intelligence services they claim to be fighting so loud….
Fortunately they are very few, I venture around a dozen ( in the best case ), the same at every “alt-media”, almost all retired ( thus, having a lot of free time ) and some married to Russian women.

Posted by: elsi | Jan 17 2018 23:11 utc | 95

Heros @91
You danced around my point: Hitler knew that attacking Poland would mean a wider war. The allies had already appeased him at Munich. They wouldn’t do so again.
Furthermore, the allies weren’t prepared for war. That’s why they had appeased Hitler and that’s why Hitler could be so bold. I think Dunkirk is further evidence of this. To say that they declared war on Germany twists the reality of what occurred.
Lastly, the allies didn’t declare war on Russia in 1939 ecause it was clear that Hitler’s Germany was the instigator of the attack. The Russians didn’t even enter Poland in September 17 – at which point Poland had already been overrun. More detail here: Why didn’t UK declare war on Russia in 1939?
You’re not credible Heros because it’s clear that you’re trying to distort what happened.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 17 2018 23:16 utc | 97

@111
Can you not see your own bias?
“The Russians didn’t even enter Poland in September 17 – at which point Poland had already been overrun”
Oh, I guess it’s ok then! Too late to declare war on the USSR, they came in late to the party. Well, let’s just give them the whole of Poland for the effort.

Posted by: xaderp | Jan 17 2018 23:28 utc | 99